Fire burns mattresses, chairs inside unoccupied Saginaw home

SAGINAW, MI — The smell of smoke hung in the air near where two mattresses burned to their springs and two charred chairs were below a broken-out window in a Saginaw home where a fire burned early this morning.

The fire happened about 5:10 a.m. Friday, April 25, at 1014 S. 4th on Saginaw's East Side.

Firefighters arrived, seeing flames coming from a front window, and entered, putting out the fire and throwing the burned furniture out the window to keep the smoke down and get the items out of their way, Battalion Chief James Champney said.

No one was living in the home at the time, he said, though firefighters believe it was recently lived in. The home was a single-family dwelling and was not divided into apartments, he said.

The fire was confined to the room of origin on the second story and caused an estimated $5,000 in damage, Champney said.